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• Cub Tracks’ trial by friar

David Frerker-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs faced the Padres in the first of three at Petco Park. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Replacement Steele

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who is the best long-term replacement for Justin Steele. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the hippest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re glad you decided to stop by. Come on in and sit with us. There’s no cover charge. We still have a couple of good tables av...2025
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, April 14 edition

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A look back at the Cubs’ 4-2 record last week. Welcome back to “Three up, three down,” a review of the Cubs’ performance over the past week’s worth of games. The week was a success, with the Cubs taking four of six from two very good teams, the Rangers and Dodgers, and generally looking good doing it. The Cubs are 11-7 and still ha...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images The Cubs win 4-2 and take the series from the Dodgers in LA. When does being on the Sunday night national broadcast suck less? When you are in California. I mean, it is certainly possible the game would have been a Sunday “afternoon” game in Los Angeles. But for me over here in Florida, them playing a game that only ended around 10 p.m. local time wa...2025
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• Cubs 4, Dodgers 2: Pete Crow-Armstrong shows off in front of the home folks

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images PCA hit two homers and a triple with his parents in attendance at Dodger Stadium. I told you the Cubs could win this series! The Cubs went into Dodger Stadium and with solid pitching and hitting took two of three from the defending World Series champions, winning Sunday. They got a strong outing from an unexpected source (Colin Rea) and a great offen...2025
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• Cubs lose star pitcher Justin Steele for season in crushing injury blow

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• Cubs lose star pitcher Justin Steele for season in crushing injury blow
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 14, 2025

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images Cole Ragans can only be stopped by cramps. Anne Rogers writes that Cole Ragans was masterful on Sunday. If not for a left hamstring cramp that Ragans began to feel throughout his outing and more while facing Austin Hedges in the eighth inning, the Royals’ lefty might have completed his first career complete game. He was that dominant and that efficient, ...2025
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• Braves News: Chris Sale, Spencer Strider, More

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Braves Hope to start off week on a good note After the Braves nightmare road trip to start the season, the hope was that returning home and a bit easier stretch of the schedule could lead to some better results. Well over their past 8 games, Atlanta is 4-4, which as better stretch than 0-7. But they still remain 7 games under .500 at 4-11, and though it clea...2025
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• Cubs' Steele to have elbow surgery, done for '25
Cubs pitcher Justin Steele, who went on the IL last week after feeling discomfort in his left elbow, will undergo season-ending surgery, manager Craig Counsell said....2025
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• Justin Steele will have elbow surgery this week and is out for the season

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Well... this is definitely not good news. Cubs lefthander Justin Steele has had elbow issues off and on over the last couple of years. This season, it resulted in him being scratched from a scheduled start today against the Dodgers. Now, he’s scratched for the rest of 2025 (Bluesky link): Cubs manager Craig Counsell said Justin Steele will ...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ don’t make a habit of this

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Cubs lose to Diamondbacks in a game that doesn’t count but feels bad nonetheless. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, s...2025
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"Justin Steele, a pretty similar pitcher who had a breakout season just before hitting his first year of arbitration, earned $4 million in his first year, and $6."

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"They stranded RISP in the second inning, then Justin Steele made one bad pitch to Masyn Winn with a runner on and the Cardinals led 2-0."

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"Justin Steele will throw the series opener."

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"Justin Steele, who’s been very good lately, will start for the Cubs, and he’ll have to be good, because facing him will be Brewers righthander Brandon Woodruff."

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"Left-hander Justin Steele has been recalled from the alternate training site in his place."

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"The Cubs have added three pitchers – right-hander Keegan Thompson and a pair of lefties in Justin Steele and Jack Patterson – to their 60-man player pool, per Gordon Wittenmyer of NBC Sports Chicago."

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"Furthermore, drafting Schwarber and signing him to an underslot bonus allowed the team to grab several promising arms in later rounds, including Jake Stinnett, Carson Sands, Justin Steele and Dylan Cease."

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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 14, 2025
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• Cub Tracks’ blankety-blank

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs unlimbered themselves at the Dodgers’ expense and look to steal away with the meatloaf this evening. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball...2025
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• Braves News: Aaron Bummer to bereavement list, series opening loss, and more

David Frerker-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves announced Friday that left-hander Aaron Bummer was unfortunately placed on the bereavement list. To take his spot, the club recalled righty Zach Thompson. The #Braves today recalled RHP Zach Thompson to Atlanta and placed LHP Aaron Bummer on the major league bereavement list.— Atlanta Braves (@Brave...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images It was a bummer of a day as the Cubs lose 6-2. The start to this season has been so exceptional that this game is a weird feeling. The Cubs did show a brief sign of life in the fourth inning and the game was tied after four. This game was all Rangers, though. Shōta Imanaga had an uncharacteristically bad day. He allowed a couple of homers and...2025
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• BCB After Dark: World Championship defense?

Ed Szczepanski-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which Cubs team had the better defense: 2016 or 2025? Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the cold and sit with us. We’re so glad you decided to stop by. There’s no cover charge this evening. We still have a few tabl...2025
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• Padres 8, Cubs 7: This space intentionally left blank

David Banks-Imagn Images That was one of the weirdest games you will ever see. I’m going to put this right out there first thing, and then get to the recap of this bizarre game. You might disagree with my conclusion here, but I think Craig Counsell made a mistake in the ninth inning. After batting for Matt Shaw with Michael Busch, Counsell put Gage Workman at third and left Justin Turner a...2025
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• Justin Steele will have elbow surgery this week and is out for the season
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 3

Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images With another strong week, the Brewers now sit in a tie for first in the division Welcome to the third week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without further ado...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts: Cubs fans are optimistic about the team’s win total

Photo by Griffin Quinn/MLB Photos via Getty Images Here are the results of this week’s SB Nation reacts survey. Earlier this week, I posted this survey, sponsored by FanDuel, asking you about the over/under for Cubs wins this year. FanDuel set the bar at 88.5 wins. Here are the results: This seems a reasonable result to me. Personally, I am optimistic about this team, and thou...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 10, 2025

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Being shut out is no fun. Sam McDowell at the Star has five takeaways from the first two weeks of the season: Those three hitters in the middle of the order combined for a 1.025 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) with runners in scoring position in 2024. Witt was second in baseball at 1.183, Pasquantino 14th and Perez 15th. A year later, that trio has combi...2025
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• Rangers 6, Cubs 2: Sometimes it’s just not your day

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The Cubs offense got shut down on a very cold afternoon. Dire weather forecasts of all-day rain made it seem very unlikely, early this morning, that this game would be played. But the rain fell mostly south of the city — it just sprinkled a couple of times at the ol’ ballyard — and so the Cubs and Rangers were able to complete their three-game series...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 14

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs offense never quits in a 10-6 win over the Rangers. The beat rolls on. The Cubs offense has been a largely unstoppable force in the early going. It posted 10 more runs in this one. Once again, there were contributions up and down the lineup. The Cubs had 12 hits by six players. They also drew six walks and had a hit batter. Eight different Cub...2025
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• Cubs roster move: Justin Steele to injured list, Ethan Roberts recalled

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images This isn’t good. Justin Steele threw seven outstanding innings on Monday. Unfortunately, that’s the last we’ll see of him for at least two weeks (Bluesky link): Cubs announce that lefty Justin Steele has been placed on 15-day IL due to left elbow tendinitis. Righty Ethan Roberts recalled from Iowa.— Jordan Bastian (@bastianmlb.bsky.social) ...2025
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• Cubs 4, Dodgers 2: Pete Crow-Armstrong shows off in front of the home folks
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• Braves News: Aaron Bummer to bereavement list, series opening loss, and more
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• BCB After Dark: Will the Cubs keep winning without Justin Steele?

Justin Steele with the scoreboard in the background on Monday | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images One of the Cubs’ best pitchers has hit the IL. Welcome to your late night, indie coffee shop and bar where we’re serving up all the drinks you need early in the baseball season. Whether it’s a glass of wine to chill after work or a cup of coffee to keep you rolling when the Cubs ...2025
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• Cub Tracks keeps on runnin’

Matt Marton-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. De Padres fell prey to the agony of de feet and the goose laid an egg on their plans. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Broken Steele?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks how worried you are about Justin Steele’s poor start to the seaosn. It’s Tuesday night hear at BCB After Dark: the grooviest gathering of night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come on in. If you’ve been in the rain, you can dry off by the fireplace. There’s no ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 7

Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images The Cubs pummel the A’s as they open their new home. On Sunday, the Cubs missed an opportunity to have a signature win. They could have taken three of four from a legitimate playoff contender, in their ballpark and even the season record at three wins and three losses. We’ve seen so many bullpen collapses in recent years, particularly early season ones, that it...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 6

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Fright Show: The Cubs bullpen immolates in Arizona. You always know there are going to be games like this. There are always going to be some games that you should have won and let get away and some games that you should have lost and flip the script. In and of itself, I don’t lose more than a moment’s thought about a game like this. So many things. Every ye...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 5

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images A thoroughly entertaining Cubs win. I’d like to thank the Cubs for playing a terrific game. A little behind the scenes, I went to bed Friday night rather than stay up with the Cubs game. I was up a little before 6 locally in Florida to write about Friday night’s Diamondbacks beatdown of the Cubs. I had a long day here that included a local renaissance fai...2025
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• Cubs 6, Tigers 4: The never-quit Cubs pull one out

Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports After a devastating grand slam tied things up, the Cubs got to work and came out on top. All’s well that ends well, and the Cubs ended this series well with a 6-4 win over the Tigers, but I’ll ask you the question, and you can vote in the poll. After Jameson Taillon loaded the bases in the sixth inning, then retired the next two hitters, would you have taken...2023
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• Cubs 10, Red Sox 4: Cody Bellinger is en fuego!
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs brought out the long ball — and a lot more hits — and evened up the series. There is nothing that says more about what the Chicago Cubs should do going forward than what happened in their 10-4 win over the Red Sox Saturday. Cody Bellinger, who has now homered five times in his last six games, hit a grand slam to cap a six-run inning. Marcus Strom...2023
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• Cubs 9, Rangers 6: Seven in a row!
Edwin Rios | Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs have been on a winning tear in the Cactus League. Adrian Sampson and the Cubs did not start this game well, trailing 6-2 after just three innings. But a few of the sub Cubs had nice days at the plate and that resulted in a 9-6 Cubs win over the Rangers, the team’s seventh straight victory. Wins and losses, obviously, mean nothing in Sp...2023
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• Cubs 10, Pirates 1: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images The Cubs got another strong team effort and won the series in Pittsburgh. When the Cubs departed for the just-completed seven-game road trip to Detroit and Pittsbugh, my feeling was that they needed to go 5-2 to keep pace with, or improve their position on, other postseason contenders. With Sunday’s well-played 10-1 win over the Pirates, the Cubs did just ...2023
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• Cubs 8, Braves 6: Swingin’ in the rain

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs bats came alive on a really bad weather day at the ol’ ballpark. It rained all morning and afternoon in Chicago, and at Wrigley Field, and I’ll have a bit more to say about that later. Keeping with the spirit of the day, the Cubs rained down hits and home runs and evened up the series against the Braves with an 8-6 victory. The Cubs did not was...2023
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• Cubs 4, Rockies 3: Sweep!

Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs just need to keep winning, and good things will follow. Another day, another comeback win for the Chicago Cubs, and they continue to control their own destiny for the postseason. Patrick Wisdom’s two-run homer in the sixth gave the Cubs the lead, and they held on for a 4-3 win over the Rockies, sweeping the three-game series. The one-run win moved the ...2023
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• Cubs 6, Braves 4: Takin’ care of business

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs wrapped up a successful homestand by winning a series against the team with the best record in baseball. The Atlanta Braves, who came into Wrigley Field with the best record in baseball, are a very good team. But you know what? So are the Chicago Cubs. After a blowout loss Friday, the Cubs played solid baseball in every way for two days (in the rain, t...2023
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• Cubs 6, Royals 4: A tale of two games

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs appeared to be on their way to an easy win... until they had to hang on for dear life. Drip... drip... drip... That was what today’s 6-4 Cubs win over the Royals felt like, after the Cubs zoomed out to a 6-1 lead after four innings. KC runs scored off just about every Cubs reliever until Adbert Alzolay finally put a stop to that in the ninth inning wit...2023
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers preview, Sunday 4/13, 6:10 CT

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images The Cubs go for the series win. ICYMI, here’s today’s bad news about Justin Steele. Sunday notes... GOING FOR MEATLOAF: With a victory tonight, the Cubs will win the series, two games to one, just as they did in their visits to Dodger Stadium the past two years. They have won three straight series at Los Angeles against the Dodgers only once, winning two of three...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ spring training speed bump

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs dropped another game, and the regulars played very little. Domestic Opening Day looms. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overhe...2025
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• Dodgers 6, Cubs 3: Let’s have an overreaction party!

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images As a Dodgers official I rode down in an elevator with after the game said, “It’s just two games.” TOKYO — You could look at it the way I noted below the headline. Or you could look at the Cubs’ 6-3 loss to the Dodgers at the Tokyo Dome, a sweep the Dodgers completed without two of their best players (Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman) and utterly panic as t...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ for Pete’s sake

Michael Sarrazin and Barbra Streisand In ‘For Pete’s Sake’. | Photo by Columbia Pictures/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The world is his oyster, and we just live in it. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, a...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Starter of the quarter century

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who is the Cubs’ top starting pitcher of the century so far Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the grooviest gathering of night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the cold. We can check your coat. There are still a few good tables available. Let us know if you need anythi...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Where should the Cubs find more pitching?

Justin Steele warms up before a game against the Cardinals in August in front of a sold out Wrigley Field | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The roster has improved but more can be done before Spring Training Welcome to your late week, late night indie coffee shop where we’re pouring all the beverages you can imagine to help you get through January. If you’re looking for som...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs offer Alex Bregman a pillow?

Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/MLB Photos via Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if the Cubs should try to sign Alex Bregman on a short-term deal It’s another Wednesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see all of you here, safe and sound. Please come in and join...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ Shōta time

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The Cubs are .500 after a fine pitching performance and a few unfortunate bounces. The bullpen was spotless. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground fr...2024
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Hope springs eternal! Welcome back for the 10th season of Heroes and Goats. I can remember back to 2014 when Al Yellon asked the Bleed Cubbie Blue faithful if any of them had ideas for new features. Me? I wouldn’t describe myself as particularly creative. But I well remember when Russ La Croix conceived Heroes and Goats. I was from the beginning a fan o...2023
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